Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

Introduction: As countries introduce measures to restrict movement as part of efforts to reduce the number of people infected with COVID-19, more and more of us are making huge changes to our daily routines. The new realities of working from home, temporary unemployment, homeschooling of children, and lack of physical contact with other family members, friends, and colleagues take time to get used to started to develop anxiety among people. Considering the current trend conducted a study to assess health anxiety among adults attending selected hospitals in UAE. Objectives were to assess health anxiety among the adults and to associate the level of health anxiety with selected demographic variables

Materials and Methods: A Quantitative Research approach with a Cross sectional descriptive survey was used to assess health anxiety among adults. Data were obtained from the adults using a structured questionnaire to elicit the demographic profileof the adults along with a standardized questionnaire to assess level of health anxietyamong the adults. Sample participation was voluntary, complying with the consentprocedure in force, ensuring confidentiality and anonymity and the right to withdraw from the study at any given point during the study. A total of 100 valid responses were received. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the frequency and percentage distribution of socio-demographic variables. Inferential statistics like chi square and Fishersexact test of association was used to associate anxiety with selected demographic variable of adults.

Conclusion Major Findings of the Study: The result relieved that the Majority (56%) of the adults were between 31 to 40 years. Only (1%) of the adults were above 50 years. The majority (59%) of the adults were male and (41%) were females. Most of the adults (33%) completed high school. The majority (62) of the adults were working in ministry jobs and few (22%)were unemployed and only (12%) were in private companies. Most of the adults (74%) were married. Few (19%) were unmarried and only (1%) were divorced. The majority (88%) were sleeping (6- 10 hrs). Few (10%) were sleeping Less than 5hrs and only (2%) were sleeping more than 10hrs. Most of the adults (86%) were having a history of chronic illness. The majority (69%) of the adults had mild levels of anxiety and only (6%) had severe levels of health anxiety.

Adolescence is the transitional period between childhood and adulthood, characterized by a complex series of biopsychosocial changes, so the study is selected to assess the level of knowledge on antisocial behavior among adolescents in government and private schools. A comparative study was done among 60 boys of 15 to 18 years adolescents. Data was collected using a Self-structured multiple-choice questionnaire. The research analysis is done in four sections. Ultimately, the conclusion is that private school adolescents have more excellent knowledge than government school adolescents.

Background of Study: Emotional and behavioral problems are common concerns for guardians and family members. Emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood tend to continue into middle childhood and adolescence and can predict later social and academic problems or other difficulties such as substance use.

Objectives: Assess the knowledge regarding Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems before the structured teaching program. Assess the knowledge regarding Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems after the structured teaching program. Assess the effectiveness of structured teaching on knowledge regarding childhood emotional and behavioral problems among parents. To find the association between knowledge with selected socio-demographic variables.

Research Methodology: This research was a quantitative evaluatory study. A Pre-experimental study design was used to obtain an accurate and meaningful description of the study. The study population was parents of children. The setting for the present study is three villages. The nonprobability purposive sampling technique approach was brought to be most appropriate for the study. The sample size included in the study consist of 100 parents of children Parents having children age group 5–18 years were enrolled as study participants.

Result: The pre-test mean score is 11.6, the Mean percentage is 29, and the standard deviation is ±6.45. The post-test mean score is 31.9, the Mean percentage is 79.75, and the standard deviation is ± 4.88. the majority of subjects, 48% (48) had poor knowledge regarding childhood emotional and behavioral disorders in the pre-test, 42% (42) had average knowledge, and only 10% (10) subjects had good knowledge in the pre-test. After one week of the planned teaching program, 60% (60) of the subject had excellent knowledge, 36% (36) had good knowledge, and 4% (4) had average knowledge. There is a significant association between sociodemographic variable and knowledge score as the calculated chi-square value is greater than the table values at 0.05 level of significance.

Conclusion: In our study, we found that the majority of subjects, 48%, had poor knowledge regarding childhood emotional and behavioral disorders in the pre-test, and 42% had average knowledge. Only 10% of subjects had good knowledge in the pre-test and none of them had excellent knowledge regarding childhood emotional and behavioral disorders in the pre-test. After one week of the planned teaching program, 60% of the subject had excellent knowledge, 36% had good knowledge, and 4% had average knowledge. In this study, we found that parents gain knowledge about emotional and behavioral disorders.

This study aimed to assess the knowledge of internet addiction among adolescents in selected colleges of Tirupathi. A descriptive research approach with a non-experimental research design was adopted for this study. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the participants (n=60). Intermediate students from Sri Chaitanya College, Tirupati were selected. A self-structured questionnaire was administered as a tool and the collected data was analyzed. The study result showed that among 60 students, 31 (51.67%) Had inadequate knowledge, 28 (46.67%) Had moderate knowledge and 1 (1.67%) Had adequate knowledge regarding the consequences of internet addiction. There is no statistically significant association between the levels of knowledge of adolescents on internet addiction with their demographic variables.

Research comprises Creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications. It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliché, it's the key to victory over fear and its cousin, depression.

Objectives: To assess attitude towards nursing research among nursing students in selected colleges and to find out the association between the attitude towards nursing research among nursing students with selected demographic variables.

Methodology: A quantitative non experimental descriptive exploratory method was adopted for the present study. Study conducted on nursing students of College of nursing. The study samples are final year nursing students. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used. In this study attitude towards nursing research divided into 3 categories that is Positive attitude (28-40), Neutral attitude (14-27), Negative attitude (0-13) and findings shows that 73% students have positive attitude (28-40), 27% of students have neutral attitude (14-27) and 0% of students have negative attitude (0-13), towards nursing research.